Open Directory without DNS possible ?

[rhartlein]

Hello,

I am planning to set up a tiny company network with Tiger Server as follows :

2 G5 iMacs, one of them acting as the server
1 DSL-Modem / router acting as DHCP server
1 PowerBook with mobile account

My goal is to provide just authentication and home directories to the client machines. DNS and DHCP should continue to be served by the DSL modem/router.

The (great) tutorial on afp548 says DNS is absolutely needed on the server to serve out user authentication and home directories.

I wonder if I could simply “bind” the second iMac and the PowerBook to the server using the DirectoryAccess application, by configuring the LDAP Servers ip-address manually.

I remember having done something like that in the 10.2 days …

Thank you for your help !

[rhartlein]

Thank you for your reply !

I am still quite a novice, so please excuse my not so professional questions …

So I can hook up both iMacs to a switch, the switch to the router/modem, configure one iMac with OS X Server (even with only one Ethernet port on the iMac ?) and give it a fixed IP (ex. 192.168.0.200).

Then while configuring DNS, I create a zone with my “domain”, and select “other” in the server IP Address menu in the “General” Tab and enter IP 127.0.0.1. Right ?

On the clients, I use Directory Access to connect them via LDAPv3 to 192.168.0.200, right (and DHCP to get an IP from the router/modem) ?

Thank you.

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